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C. C..- TOWNSEND, OE -ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

. .Leners Patent. No, 75,602, ma Marel. 17, 1858.

IMPROVBD SHOE-KNIFE GUARD.

l Stimuli ttfemt in in there Enters @anni animating part mf tlgeume.

(EO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Be it known that I, G. G. TOWNSEN'D, of Rochester, in the county of'Monroe, and 'State of New York,

have invented new and useful Shoe-Knife Guurdg endl do hereby declrethat the following is full, elegir,V

andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings making part of this specifica.- till, in whichf A. i i

Figure 1 isa. top view Of'myinventionas applied tothe-blade of theordinary trimming-khife.

Figure 2 is al view ofthe back of thesame. y i

'Like letters indicate corresponding piirts. y

Tlie nature of this invention consists in the employment of Aenadjustable skeleton-guard, which mgty be appliedto any Ordinarytrimming-knife for dressing the upper edge of boot and shoe-soles nextltothe uppers.

To enable others to make and use my inventioml will describe itsconstruction und operation.

The guard is composed of the framef, halving the shank s and the spur g,which acts as a. guide end guard to the cutting-point of `the knife. TheOuter face of this spur is mede slightly oval.. as shown aft a, iig. 2,and is provided On'the opposite or inner fece with a. shallow V-sliapedgroove tO receive the bevelled end of the blade B of theknife.l Theencirolingbar Z, shown mostly by dott/ed lines in fig. 1, is cast to thefrgirnej by offsets, as shown at d,g. 2. The back bur ot the frame isthickened, and also Offset, as, shown,'in order that the ploints ofjheclamping-screw s', which is tapped through this enr or Offset z, shallstrike the-buck of the blade. This drives the end, which is cut Oobliquely, "of, the blade at e ririnly into the V-shup'ed groevezandfthoroughly attaches it to the knife-blnde B. i n

The gunrdsrmaybe runde of steel, or ol malleable iron, andcase-lnirdened, rendering them very durable, and by making' them ofproper size to be applicable toA a wide or n. narrow blade, olrl wornblu-des muy be convertedinto goed trimming-knives by the application of.thelgunrd. l l 'I The great liability of cutting the uppers` of boo-ts`and' shoes by the mukers, with the Ordinary trimmingknives, is too wellunderstood to require any explanation; but, by the employment Of tl1s,gua.rd, that serious difficulty is entirely obviutedyund in an entirelyperfect manner, as regards that part of the work.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Putent'ofthe United Stutes,- is- -The Skeletonmuard G for shoeinatkersZtrimminknives,'consistin of the li shank s, fra'me efldl a d g p gencircling-bur b, in cmbinationwith the binding-screw s, substantiallyin the mzlnner and for the .purposes set forth. i' I G. G. TOWNSEND.Witnesses: Y i

WM.y S. LOUGHEOEOUGH,

M. NEWTON.

